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Having been out with friends to a Lebanese restaurant one of our favourite dishes there was the Shawarma Chicken. So the quest quickly came about to try and replicate the tastes from that evening. Typically the Shawarma chicken is made from the thigh meat, unrolled […]
Turkey gets such a bad press, and yet it is the “go to” meat in the UK for Christmas in particular but also and other holiday periods too. This year we delayed our ‘Christmas season’ Turkey cooking until New Year’s Day, and I have to […]
I am always staggered when we journey through France and Italy at the variety and quality of the meat the local supermarkets carry in contrast to the picture I find in my part of the UK. We were driving along the Rhone on the way […]
On our wanderings we came across a butcher selling ‘home reared’ turkey and turkey breasts. Well for 2 of us even a 1kg turkey breast seemed quite a lot of meat and even that was going to be a bit of a ‘tight squeeze’ on […]
Wandering around the local market here in Tuscany we spied a Spatchcocked chicken… and so our plans for today’s food was sorted! The term spatchcock refers to poultry prepared for roasting or grilling by removing the backbone and sometimes the sternum and flattening it out […]